CC 8 PPT- appearance vs reality in othello novel in eng. literature

apperance vs reality in othello

1. APPEARANCE Vs reality in othello Vanga Nitya Vaishnavi 20UGENG19

2. They are not what they seem! Iago – master of deception, orchestrates all the sins FRIENDLY TONE – ( ACT 1 SCENE 3) Roderigo : She’ll never love me ! I just want to go drown! Iago : No more of drowning , do you hear? Let us be conjunctive in our revenge! (Inclusive Pronoun) Contrasts - fool! Snipe! “Thus do I ever make Roderigo my purse!” (Iago to Roderigo) Soliloquies - Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light! Religious imagery Duplicitous nature of Iago ‘ I am not what I am ‘ (Iago to Roderigo)(ACT 1 SCENE 1) Inversion - ‘I am what I am’ from the Book of Exodus in the Bible Asides – Desdemona and Cassio’s affair Iago - ‘Ay, Well said, Whisper…Ay, Smile upon her, Do….Well Kissed!’ (ACT 2 SCENE 1)

3. Iago Master of staging Seeing is believing in ACT 2 SCENE 3 – Friendly and humorous tone with Roderigo and Cassio Ocular proof of Desdemona’s affair (ACT 3 SCENE 3) Cassio’s drunken judgement Game of switch and bait ( ACT 4 SCENE 1) Personifies Iago’s guilt (ACT 4 SCENE 1) Shakespeare creating aside and dramatic irony – Bianca His unbookish jealousy must construe poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures and light behaviours quite in the wrong! (Act 4 scene 1)

4. metaphors ‘ for daws to peck at ‘ ‘ With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great fly as Cassio’ ‘O, you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music’ ‘Work on, my medicine!